KOLHAPUR STONE INSCRIPTION OF GANDARADITYA: SAKA YEAR 1058
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DESCRIPTION
(Lines 11-24).
Hail! They who are adorned by a multitude of numerous virtues ob tained by following the religion of the Five-hundred Heroic Men renowned in the whole world; who are virtuous by reason of the maintenance of the code of the heroic Banañjas consisting of truthfulness, pure conduct, agreeable behaviour, political wisdom, courtesy and (mercantile) knowledge;
who look splendid with (their) banner bearing (the device of) Gudda (hill), who are exalted with (their) unfaibing adventurous spirit; who are embraced by Lady Fame;
whose breast is resorted to by the Goddess of Victory secured by their own arms; who are born in the race of Vasudeva, Khandali and Mulabhadra;
who are exalted by their valour in the (whole) world;
who have obtained the gracious boon of Bhagavati;
who are invincible when they fight;
who destroy their enemies;
who abstain from the wives and property of others;
who are
like Brahma in respect of proficiency of the sixty-four arts;
like Nārāyana in the possession of a chakra (discus, or association);
Like Rudra who is the Fire of World destruction in slaying their opponents) by their gaze;
like Parasurama in seeking out and des troying slayers by (their) weapons;
like a rut-blind scent-elephant in trampling underfoot and slaying (their opponents);
like a lion in seizing and slaying those that take shelter in mountain fastnesses;
like (the serpent) Vasuki in destroying those that enter the nether world;
like Garuda in slaying those that fly in the sky;
like the earth in greatness, like the chief mountains in weighti ness (gravity); like the occan in profundity;
like Rama in perservence;
like Arjuna in valour;
like Bhishma in purity of conduct;
like Bhima in adventurous spirit;
like Yudhishthira in righte ousness;
like Sahadeva in scientific) knowledge;
like Indra in enjoyment;
like Karna in charity;
like the Sun in brilliance
(they) who are the lords of the city of Ayyavole also known as Ahichchhatra, namely, the Five-hundred Svamins, the Gavares, the Gatriyas, the Settis, the Settiguttas, the gamandas, the Gamanda-Svamins,
The heroic men, the heroic merchants, Bilpana setti, and Govinda-setti of Kollapura, Komara-Annamayya, Bijja-setti and Boppi-setti of Miriñje, Vesapayya-setti, the royal merchant of Gaṇḍarāditya, Bammi-setti of the Manda lesvara's (i.e. Nimbadēvarasa's) household, Rava-setti, who is the Government Officer in charge of the temple of the Sun in Kundipattana, Chaudhore Bappi-setti, Kannapaiya setti, the Chief of Torambarage, Choudhore Goravi-setti, the Manager of Mayisige, Santi-Setti of Baleyavaṭṭana, Haliya-setti, the lion of the Five-hundred of Ayyavole, Khapparayya, the Sheriff of Kavadegolla and others representing the whole country, having assembled